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Judge grants families’ wishes at Halloween adoption event in Las Vegas

This was the fifth time Family Court Judge Cynthia Giuliani has dressed as a fairy godmother for a special Halloween adoption event. She said she hoped the event would encourage others to adopt or consider foster care.

UNLV basketball fans get first chance to see new Rebels

UNLV will play Dakota Wesleyan in an exhibition baskeball game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. It’s the first opportunity for fans to better know what to expect this season.

UFC veteran summit provides answers for fighters’ future

Longtime UFC welterweight contender Carlos Condit was paying close attention on Friday and Saturday when he joined a group of about 20 fighters for the UFC’s veteran summit at Red Rock Resort.

Bill Cosby lawyers want accusers to go through competency hearings

Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault case against him and will seek competency hearings on any accusers allowed to testify.

Best ways to help people with cancer

For many people, it’s hard to know what to say or do when someone they love is ill. And for the patient, asking for help can be difficult.

For entertainment pro, positive mindset crucial to healing

As the director of production for On Stage Enterprises, which owns all of the “Legends in Concert” shows nationally, including the residency show at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Toni Lee has spent her career prepared to make quick adjustments based on performance mishaps and unpredictable situations. But when a diagnosis of breast cancer was shared with her on — of all days — Sept. 11, 2007, 48-year-old Lee couldn’t find a way to justify the disease choosing her body.